An Abuja high Court has ordered the EFCC to immediate release of the ex Aide of embattled ex NSA Col Dasuki .Col Nicholas Ashinze has been in detention of EFCC since December 23 2015.
Justice Yusuf Haliru while delivering the verdict ordered the commission to release Nicholas on self-recognition and also release documents and items the anti-graft agency seized from the house of the Col.
Haliru held that detaining Ashinze for over three months without trial was “illegal, wrongful, unlawful and constituted a blatant violation of the fundamental rights of the applicant.”
Berating the anti-graft agency and the Nigerian Army for acting as if Nigeria was still under the military dictatorship, the judge stated that the constitution stipulated that any person detained should be charged to court within reasonable time not exceeding two months from the date of arrest.
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